532 cxxxvi. URTICACE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Fit-its, G. Kimj. 



F. Roxburghii, Mia. in L. J. 7?. I. c. 456. F. triloba, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 

 4491 ; Miq. Ann. I. c. 270, 290 ; Brand. For. Fl. 423 ; Kurz Fur. Fl. ii. 

 449. F. hirsuta, Roxb.l. c. 528; Wight I. c. t. 670. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Sikkim eastwards; ASSAM, BUEMA and the MALAY 

 PENINSULA. DISTEIB. Malay Islands, China. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves 5-12 in., base narrow, rounded or cordate; petiole 

 -1 in., hirsute ; stipules -f in., ovate-lanceolate, deciduously strigose or hirsute. 

 Recepts f-1 in. diam.; oral bracts many, some large ; basal ovate, acuminate. Sepals 

 of all fl. 4, lanceolate, glabrous. Stamens 13. Qall ovary globose or ovoid, smooth ; 

 style short, stigma funnel-shaped. Achene granulate, ellipsoid, notched at the base 

 of the lateral long style, stigma cylindric. 



F. Jiirta proper has narrower leaves and recepts J in., and is the southern form. 

 F. triloba, Ham. (Roxburghii, Miq.), has ovate or rounded ovate leaves entire or 

 deeply lobed, and recepts -| in. diam. Both forms meet on the Khasia Mts. 



98. P. variolosa, Lindl. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Sot. (1842) i. 492 ; 

 glabrous, leaves oblong- or ob-lanceolate subacute entire, nerves 8-10 pairs, 

 basal subhorizontal, recepts in axillary pairs peduncled globose unibonate 

 warted glabrous. Benth. Fl. HongJc. 328 ; Miq. Ann. iii. 294 ; Maxim, in 

 Bull. Acad. Petersb. xi. 336. 



PEEAK, Kunstler. DISTEIB. Hong Kong. 



A shrub. Leaves 2-1 4^ in., sometimes obtusely acuminate, base cuneate, not 

 3-nerved, margins recurved; petiole i in.; stipules ^ in., ovate, acuminate. 

 Recepts in. diam. ; oral bracts large, basal 3, triangular-ovate, connate below, 

 spreading; peduncle J-i in., slender. Fern. fl. subsessile or pedicelled ; sepals 3-4 ; 

 achene trigonous, wrinkled minutely ; style lateral. Male and gall fl. unknown. 



99. P. erecta, Thunb. Diss. Fie. 9, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 327, VAR. 



Sieboldi ; leaves long-lanceolate acuminate entire of subserrate towards the 

 tip above glabrous or scabrid beneath, hispid and minutely tuberculate, 

 nerves about 8 pairs, recepts in axillary pairs peduncled pyriform smooth, 

 base'much constricted. Kcempf. Ic. Set. t..4 ; Franck. fy Savat. En. PI. Jap. 

 i. 435, ii. 490. F. pumila /3, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 33. F. Sieboldi, Miq. Ann. 

 ii. 199, iii. 295 ; Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Petersb. xi. 327. ? F. pyrifolia, 

 Burm. Fl. Ind. 226 ; Miq. Prolus. 231. ? F. japonica, Blume Bijd. 440 ; 

 Sieb. & Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. No. 778; Maxim. 1. c. 328. Itaber, 

 JZcempf. Amcen. Exot. 803. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, J. D. H. KHASIA HILLS, Mann. DISTEIB. China, Japan. 



A small tree, shoots subglabrous. Leaves 2-4 in. Recepts in. diam., glabrous 

 or puberulous. Male and gall sepals 3, lanceolate. Gall ovary globose ; style 

 short, lateral, stigma dilated. Fern. fl. subsessile; sepals 4; style lateral, thick, 

 stigma 2 -lobed. The typical F. erecta has broadly ovate or elliptic-obovata fewer- 

 nerved leaves, and depressed recepts less constricted below. The Hong Kong var. 

 (Beecheyana) has the leaves beneath and recepts hispid or almost tomentose. See 

 F. silhetensis and chartacea. 



100. F. glandulifera, Watt. Cat. 4481 ; leaves membranous ovate to 

 subobovate-oblong cuspidate entire glabrous except the puberulous midrib 

 and 4-5 pairs of nerves, recepts in axillary clusters smooth dimorphous 

 subglobose with male and gall H. or ellipsoid and female. F. aurantiaca, 

 Miq. Ann. iii. 293. Pogonotrophe aurantiaca, Miq. in Zoll. Syst. 93, 99, 

 and Flor. i. ii. 332. P. glandulifera, Miq. in L. J. B. vii. 77 ; Flor. I. c. 331 !" 

 P. sumatrana, Miq. Flor. Suppl. 436. 



BUEMA, Falconer. PENANG, Porter. PEKAK, Kunstler. MALACCA, Griffith, 

 . Malay Islands. 



